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the frame has not the projection the comb can be pressed 
directly on the top-bar and then bent at right angles, as 
with the Parker foundation fastener. To make this more 
secure a natrow strip may be tacked to the top-bar, press- 
ing the foundation. Our English friends use a double top- 
bar which is dovetailed to the uprights of the frame. Thus 
in putting together the frame the foundation is pressed 
between the two halves of the top-bar and so firmly held 
in place. ; 
The above methods are successful, but probably will 
receive valuable modifications at the hands of the ingenious 
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apiarists of our land. If we have frames with the V-shaped 
top-bar (Fig. 69), we may easily break the foundation and 
press it on, as shown in Fig. 127. 
WIRED FRAMES. 
But as foundation does sometimes fall or sag, so that 
many cells are changed to drone-cells, or warp into awk- 
ward shapes, especially if the hive is unshaded, or receives 
a full colony of bees with all its frames full of foundation, 
and as the wax is sometimes so brittle that it will not hold 
together, however well fastened, wired frames (Figs. 128 
and 7o) are rapidly coming into use. Another point strongly 
in favor of such frames is, that they can be handled or 
shipped, and there is not the least danger of their combs 
falling from the frames. Mr. Jones states that with wired 
frames we may use thinner foundation and thus save one- 
third the expense. The wires should be two inches apart, 
